Coal Pellets
- joeq
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I was informed today by a co-worker, that there's a company manufacturing wood pellets, that are 50% coal dust. Has anyone ever heard of this product? I'm not sure if he said the manufacturers name was "Frog" something, or his supplier was this name. He was asked if he wanted to try them out, they would supply him with a few bags, and he's to report back with his results. I asked him if they would be responsible if his pellet stove had a meltdown?
- Hambden Bob
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Oh Man,Joe,This Oughta get Real Good,Real Fast!.....ALGORE will hit the roof if you're caught mixing Cellulose with Dino/Fern Black Gold Fines and it works! Good Point about Temperature Points being driven higher !
- McGiever
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Who's going to try them in a EFM?
- coaledsweat
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Can't post it from my phone but if you Google making coal pellets for use in a pellet stove youtube has a video of it.
- scottshotgun
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- Freddy
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I dunno about that, but here in Maine they are about to pull the trigger on a new product: Torrefied wood. They plan to microwave wood making it into charcoal pellets. They aim to export most of it to Europe to be used in pellet stoves for heat.
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- joeq
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Wouldn't we consider this as "good news"? That means the interest in coal is hanging in there. Bit coal. Anthy coal, pellet coal .I mean coal is coaI, right? It all comes from the same place.
- Carbon12
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Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just burn the coal in a coal stove???
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- coaledsweat
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It would make for a good episode of Dirty Jobs for Mike Rowe!
Something I saw at a trade show a couple years ago was carbon pellets. This was a power generation show in baltimore.
The plan was to have a locally grown supply of something that they would process into carbon pellets that would be used as fuel for power gen. They would co-locate the plant mfging the pellets so there would be no transport charges. The plants grown would be chosen based on the area they were operating in.
It was being promoted as very 'green' and an additive to coal burning. I think it helped their carbon credits since it was renewable or something. There were no cost estimates given, I don't know if it has caught on yet. They had small samples of the stuff which was rice coal sized in baggies. I took one and burned it in my coal stove!!!
The plan was to have a locally grown supply of something that they would process into carbon pellets that would be used as fuel for power gen. They would co-locate the plant mfging the pellets so there would be no transport charges. The plants grown would be chosen based on the area they were operating in.
It was being promoted as very 'green' and an additive to coal burning. I think it helped their carbon credits since it was renewable or something. There were no cost estimates given, I don't know if it has caught on yet. They had small samples of the stuff which was rice coal sized in baggies. I took one and burned it in my coal stove!!!
- davidmcbeth3
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If only someone would make a machine for pelleting democrats ...